xterm and erase character

[Ivo Särak]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 06:51 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> With the changes that are being tried in xterm package, I seem to
> need to manually set stty erase to ^H so that stuff works like I
> expect it to in X.  However setting that in .bashrc like:
> 
>   stty erase 
> 
> Causes bad behavior in text mode terminals.  I get ^? for backspace
> and ^[[3~ for delete key.  I have to manually do ^H to get the
> desired behavior of deleting one character to the left.
> 
> I've forgotten the standard test for a terminal to know if it is in X
> or not but even knowing that I'm wondering if I could set a resource
> in ~/.Xresources for xterm, so it would only happen in xterm running
> in X.  Not to have to bother with it in init files.
> 
> That is, is there a resource setting that will cause erase char to be
> ^H (control+H) that can be inserted into ~/.Xresources?
> 

The very same error has implications to various parts of Fedora Core. 
For the reasons take a look:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122815#c4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115448

I hope this will get fixed, soon.
-- 
Ivo Särak <ivo at vendomar.ee>